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Granny Dan [Kindle Edition]

Danielle Steel (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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For more than a decade, young Danina Petroskova has known no life but that of the ballet and her mentor Madame Markova. When a deathly illness steals her from the stage, the young dancer is inconsolable, and, desperate to speed her recovery, Madame Markova agrees to hand Danina over to the talented Dr. Nikolai Obrajensky for treatment. Convalescing with the Romanovs at the Tsarskoe Selo palace, Danina learns to live in and love the world beyond the ballet. And while grateful for Nikolai's companionship, she is startled by the intense emotions growing inside her for the married doctor. Drawn to Danina, Nikolai cannot ignore the passion between them either, and the strength of their love quickly overpowers their resistance. Soon Madame Markova and Nikolai's wife remind them of their previous obligations, and as the Revolution hovers on the horizon, the two must make a decision that will change their lives forever.

As if a romance set in the twilight years of Czarist Russia doesn't have enough intrinsic pathos, Danielle Steel takes great care to give her hero and heroine the bittersweet combination of incomparable virtue and external duties. When the young prima ballerina and the married doctor meet, they are drawn to the corresponding sense of integrity and duty in each other. However, when love and duty conflict, the struggle is never easy.

Maestro Steel knows where the heartstrings are, and she plays them with her reliable talents. While students of history may cringe at the simplified approach to the historical period, readers just looking for a good time have found it. With the tough-but-loving mother figure, the ill-but- lovable Prince Alexander, the borrowed ball gowns and the emotional grand jeté, this book has everything a TV movie needs except a small, cuddly pet. Put your feet up, set aside your spoilsport logic and enjoy this novel for what it is: a classic romance. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien

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The greatest legacy of all...an unexpected gift of a life transformed.
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 277 KB
  • Print Length: 274 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0440224829
  • Publisher: Transworld Digital; New Ed edition (1 Dec 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0031RS7UO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #27,051 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Totally absorbing which engages the reader from the start 30 Dec 2001
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
Granny Dan is yet another example of the excellent work of Danielle Steel. From the start you are drawn into the life of Granny Dan, a person who has been brought up in the Russian Ballet and at the start knows no other life. The book gives you an insight to life Granny Dan lived and how this changed when she discovered love. I found the book predictable in places, but even the predictable had a twist. I found myself wondering how she would resolve the tug of love she became involved in between her love for the ballet and the man she fell in love with. The book takes the reader through this stage in Granny Dans life with feeling and great emotion. Surrounding the story of Granny Dan is the setting of Russia in the very early 1920's. I found the book drew very effectively on the effect of events in Russia at this time, and the principles by which people lived at that time, all of which have a profound effect on Granny Dan and the life she finds herself living. I myself was unable to put this book down, defiantly another winner for Danielle Steel.
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4.0 out of 5 stars good read 17 April 2013
By Ingrid Wallace
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I enjoyed reading this book as I always do with D Steel. Was a little disappointed with the end, could do with a granny dan 2.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Granny Dan 2 Jan 2013
By Gillian Tinkley
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
great read

Could not put it down maybe a true story these things did happen ln that tlme
Hope enjoy
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Fantastic book, spellbound till the end. Written with so much feeling and passion. Danielle Steel at her best, yet again.
Published 5 months ago by Mrs Caroline Doggett
5.0 out of 5 stars Danielle Steele - Granny Dan
Bought to be part of my collection. Waiting to be read still. I have NEVER had an issue with any D.S books as I thinkshe a fabulous author in my opinion.
Published 13 months ago by mazymolar
5.0 out of 5 stars First class
I have always liked Danielle Steele`s books, I have by no means read all that she has written but the research that is done for every book is very detailed and the places in her... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mrs. Delysia A. Pankhurst
5.0 out of 5 stars Totally absorbing which engages the reader from the start
Granny Dan is yet another example of the excellent work of Danielle Steel. From the start you are drawn into the life of Granny Dan, a person who has been brought up in the Russian... Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars A story of love that never dies
Granny Dan is a story from a wonderful era when life was harsher but seemed so much simpler. It is the story of a legacy left by a Grandmother to a granddaughter who thought she... Read more
Published on 14 Oct 2001
4.0 out of 5 stars Spell Binding
Granny Dan, is a book written with nostalga in mind, but done well. It starts with a box, belonging to a older relative, and then develops along their life, and what she lived to... Read more
Published on 3 April 2001
3.0 out of 5 stars Perplexed!
This is a book for those who seek to get to know the featured characters well. I felt that although the book explores ballet and its risks and hardship in great detail, the romance... Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2001
1.0 out of 5 stars An infantile attempt at a romantic novel
This book should be put on the shelves for children, it is very immature writing and leaves the reader with a wish to hurry through so as not to have to read any more. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2000
2.0 out of 5 stars A lightweight read with a wafer thin plot.
This is a strangely frustrating book. A simple, uncomplicated romance that never progresses, never challenges and never impresses. Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2000 by "mrsdec"
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